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40 Percent of Whites Don't Have Black Friends

Updated 04.20.17 5:49PM ET / Published 08.08.13 3:09PM ET

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All cards are on the table, white people: that so-called "black friend" you all have isn't actually real. According to a new poll from Reuters/Ipsos, 40 percent of white Americans don't have non-white friends, while 25 percent of non-white Americans have no friends outside their racial demographic. Suprisingly—given legal segregation ended 60 years ago—schools are still extremely racially divided. According to 2009 data from a UCLA Civil Rights Project, the schools attended by 40 percent of black and Latino students are 90 percent black and Latino. While white students go to schools that are 77 percent white.